closed primary. a primary nominating election in which only declared party members can vote
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• Closed primary
• a primary nominating election in which only declared party members can vote
• Coattail effect
• The effect of a strong candidate running for an office at the top of a ballot helping to attract voters to other candidate on the party’s ticket
• Electoral coalition
• an association of political parties or individuals which exists solely to stand in elections
• General election
• The regularly scheduled election at which voters make final selection of officeholders
• Incumbent
• The current holder of a political office
• Negative ad
• Ad to win an advantage by referring to negative aspects of an opponent or of a policy rather than emphasizing one's own positive attributes or preferred policies
• Office-bloc ballot
• A ballot listing all candidates for a given office under the name of that office; also called a “Massachusetts” ballot
• Open primary
• A party nominating election in which any qualified voter can take part
• Party-column ballot
• A ballot listing all candidates of a given party together under the name of that party; also called an “Indiana” ballot
• Political action committee
• The political extension of special interest groups which have a major stake in public policy
• Position issue
• An issue dividing the electorate on which rival parties adopt different policy positions to attract voters
• Presidential primary
• An election in which a party’s voters – 1. Choose State party organization’s delegates
to their party’s national convention and/or
– 2. Express a preference for their party’s presidential nomination
• Primary election
• An election prior to the general election in which voters select candidates who will run on each party’s ticket
• Prospective voting
• Voting for a candidate because one favors his or her ideas for addressing issues after the election
• Public finance law
• Realigning or critical periods
• Periods during which a sharp, lasting shift occurs in the popular coalition supporting one or both parties. The issues that separate the two parties change, and so the kinds of voters supporting each party change.
• Realignment
• The shift in popular coalition supporting one or both parties.
• Two kinds of realignment– When a major is so badly defeated that it
disappears and a new party emerges– When both party continues but voters shift their
support from one party to the other
• Retrospective voting
• Voting for or against the candidate or party in office because one likes or dislikes how things have gone in the recent past
• Runoff primary
• A primary in which the top two vote-getters in the first direct primary face one another
• Split ticket voting
• Voting for candidates of different political parties for different offices at the same election
• Spots
• Short television ads
• Straight-ticket voting
• The practice of voting for candidates of only one political party at an election
• Theme
• The theme of a campaign of presidential candidates
• A simple, appealing that can be repeated over and over again
• Ex: – Jimmy Carter (1976) – trust– Ronald Regan (1980) – competence– George Bush (1988) – stay on course– Bill Clinton (1992) – we need to change
• Tone
• The tone of a campaign of presidential candidates, can be either:– Positive (build-me-up)– Negative (attack-the-opponent)
• Valence issue
• An issue on which voters distinguish rival parties by the degree to which they associate each party or candidate with conditions, goals or symbols the electorate universally approves or disapproves of
• Visual
• A campaign activity that appears on news broadcast